the great gatsby?

[AgaBoogaBoo]

How is this book?

 

[Platypus]

I think it's great, most people end up hating it because they're forced to read it in HS and have a sh!tty English prof who doesn't convey the true messages of the story.

 

[deftron]

I guess you didn't make it to junior high?

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo
How is this book?

I personally liked it, however I've heard many others say they have not. *shrug*

 

[DainBramaged]

4/10

Read anything by Ernest Hemingway before you read The Great Gatsby.

 

[SacrosanctFiend]

Absolutely loved it.

 

[FleshLight]

The green light symbolize something I forgot. Money deson't buy happiness. Gatsby DIES!!!

Edit: And I had to read it for my English 5/6 Honors class. I thought it was pretty entertaining. A Street Car Named Desire is much better.

 

[Anubis]

1/10

the only good thing it has going for it is that its in english, it sucks in every other aspect

 

[dethman]

junior high?

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: dethman
junior high?

high school

 

[Ryan]

There is not confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.

 

[AreaCode707]

<3

I was an English major though, so my opinion maybe doesn't count. I had to read it in a modern american lit class and I think one of the reasons that I liked it is because it was better than a lot of the other stuff we had to read. Not my favorite book, but one of my favorites from the class.

 

[Twista]

dunno, saw the movie in school last year as 2004.. school year

 

[Wuffsunie]

I thought it was okay. Not my typical thing, but nothing to offend my tastes (like Catcher in the Rye). It's like a soap opera set in the 30s, that's how my teacher put it and that's quite accurate.

 

[Nitemare]

Pretty good read, did not like the ending that much though

 

[imthebadguy]

idk bout the book,. the movie was decent tho

 

[BeauJangles]

excellent book

 

[realsup]

I hated every charector.

 

[hdeck]

i enjoyed it.

 

[Megatomic]

I enjoyed the book a lot more than the movie.

 

[TitanDiddly]

sucks

 

[pennylane]

I enjoyed it a great deal as well.

 

[nageov3t]

Originally posted by: deftron
I guess you didn't make it to junior high?

in fairness... I've never had to read the book, despite going to good private schools through 12th grade, taking 6 years worth of English classes in high school, and majoring in English Lit in college

I didn't read it until senior year of college, when a professor asked me to give a lecture on it for his Freshman lit class.

 

[whistleclient]

great.

"He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it."

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

 

[Siddhartha]

I read it in high school. It was okay, but I did not see what all the hype was about. It hit me as a melodrama about the rich, rich wannabes, and their toddies.

A couple of years ago I saw an episode of "Great Books" about it and the show explained what all the hype is about.